noun

Douglas is the king of jazz's current crop of eclectics: He's the kind of guy who shows up at a Jewish wedding with a tango band and proceeds to play Bjork covers.

But they are not just reactionary eclectics; they think they can twist and recombine architectural history in fresh and original ways that would have been unthinkable before modernism wiped the slate clean.

The two strongest objections each approach levels at the other is the claim that eclectics are undisciplined, and that traditionalists are stagnated.

Origin

Late 17th century (as a term in philosophy): from Greekeklektikos, from eklegein 'pick out', from ek 'out' + legein 'choose'.